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Text:We Bid You Welcome in the Name
Author:James Montgomery, 1771-1854
Tune:HERR JESU CHRIST, MEINS

262. We Bid You Welcome in the Name

1 We bid you welcome in the name
Of Jesus, our exalted head.
Come as a servant--so he came--
And we receive you in his stead.

2 Come as a shepherd, guard and keep
This fold from hell and world and sin;
Nourish the lambs and feed the sheep;
The wounded heal, the lost bring in.

3 Come as a teacher sent from God,
Charged his whole counsel to declare.
Our ranks encourage, laggards prod
While we uphold your hands with prayer.

4 Come as a messenger of peace,
Filled with the Spirit, fired with love.
Live to enjoy our large increase,
And die to meet us all above.

Text Information
First Line: We bid you welcome in the name
Title: We Bid You Welcome in the Name
Author: James Montgomery, 1771-1854 (alt.)
Meter: LM
Language: English
Publication Date: 1982
Topic: Ordination, Installation
Tune Information
Name: HERR JESU CHRIST, MEINS
Meter: LM
Key: A Major
Source: As hymnodus sacer, Leipzig, 1625
Copyright: Arrangement: Copyright 1982 Concordia Publishing House.



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